The Make-A-Wish Foundation helped make 9-year-old leukemia sufferer Ben Duskin's dream of a video game that cancer patients could play to take their minds off of chemotherapy come true. Unfortunately, the result is Ben's Game -- in which the main character, modeled after Ben, skates around and battles mutant cancer cells, his every misstep and defeat at the hands of the cancerous horde a painful reminder of the real life battle in which he's engaged.

Next up for Make-A-Wish: a video game for AIDS sufferers in which they attempt to navigate through a world of Haitian hookers, defective condoms, dirty needles, and contaminated blood supplies. It should be hours of fun for those AIDSies.


Ben Duskin, above, wishes he'd never opened his leukoplakia riddled mouth.

Analogcabin @ 9:45 AM
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